2089: The Marduk attack Earth. At length, the power of Emperor Ingues
is broken and the Earth is saved. The Marduk sign a nonhostility agreement
with the U.N. Spacy government before leaving under the leadership of Feff.

2090: The Sentinel probes are dispatched. Small automated sensor devices,
the Sentinels are designed to provide early warning of alien presence near
Earth.

2091: Rumour leaks out of Marduk space of war as Feff struggles to
unite his people in the wake of the death of Ingues. A growing colonization
movement on Earth results in a colony planned and launched for Estersen.

2093: U.N. Spacy military command redesigns the tactical orientation of
the terran military. As more colonizing missions are planned, the old
Macross SDF ships are assigned to orbital defence; Gloria class Command
Ships are given refits to serve as Heavy Cruisers. A new vessel type,
the Illustrious Class Dreadnought, begins design.

2096: The Terran military forces are reorganized. The Terran Expeditionary
Fleet is founded, organized into armadas built around an Illustrious Class
Dreadnought. The first of these ships enters service later in the year.
The Colonial Defence Force is founded to protect the three established
colonies, staffed largely with Colonial recruits and veterans of the Marduk
War.

2097: A brief communication signal is recieved from a Sentinel probe in
deep space.

Later in this year, the Musashi joined the Illustrious, the Ark Royal
and the Constitution as the fourth Dreadnought.

January 2098: A civilian commercial research vessel vanishes beyond
the limits of settled human space. SSN reporters suggest that there are
a great number of ways for a ship to vanish in deep space. The report
of the Sentinel probe was never released to the media. Miarnos and
Cannar Colonies are founded.

March 2098: the Ark Royal battlegroup, on patrol, encounters an alien
fleet and attacks. A burst transmission is recieved shortly thereafter.

The burning hull of a Gloria class vessel can be seen beyond one of the
purple alien vessels. U.N. Spacy government officials ordered this
image subjected to repeated computer analysis and photointerpretation, but
little more could be derived.

Six days later two Gloria class vessels, six Anderson Class gunships and
213 Valkyries reach Cannar. Estimations of casualties stagger the
U.N. Spacy high command. Two days after this, the death of the Ark Royal
and its transmitted image, but not the associated text, are leaked to SNN.
Panic grips the people of Earth.

May 2099: The U.N. Spacy prepares to meet the threat of a new alien
invasion.